Tejeda

Tejeda, a high school dropout who earned distinction on the battlefields of Vietnam and on Ivy League campuses, died Thursday. He was 51. The Texas Democrat, first elected in 1993, died of pneumonia. Treatments of a malignant brain tumor had made him vulnerable to infection, his office said. Tejeda enlisted in the Marines in 1963 after dropping out of high school at 17. He earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart in his four-year tour of duty. He went on to earn his high school equivalency certificate, then university degrees, including a master's in public administration from Harvard and a law degree from Yale.

Eboly Tejeda and Andre Mayes of Altamonte Springs welcomed the newest addition to their family at 12:07 a.m. Thursday: a boy who was the first baby born in Central Florida in 2009. The child, Jace Keith Mayes, weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce and measured 21 1/4 inches, according to a nursing supervisor at The Baby Place at Florida Hospital Orlando. Tejeda, 20, endured an 18-hour labor and watched New Year's Eve celebrations on a TV in the birthing suite before her new son finally arrived. "They kept saying, 'Push!

ST. PETERSBURG -- Robinson Tejeda won his second consecutive start since being called up from the minor leagues and Carlos Lee hit a solo homer, helping the Texas Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 4-3 and a avoid four-game sweep. . . . Tejeda (3-3) gave up two runs and five hits in 72/3 innings. He was recalled from Class AAA Oklahoma on Saturday to make a start that day and earned a spot in the rotation after giving up one run over 62/3 iinnings in a 3-1 win over Detroit.

Eboly Tejeda and Andre Mayes of Altamonte Springs welcomed the newest addition to their family at 12:07 a.m. Thursday: a boy who was the first baby born in Central Florida in 2009. The child, Jace Keith Mayes, weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce and measured 21 1/4 inches, according to a nursing supervisor at The Baby Place at Florida Hospital Orlando. Tejeda, 20, endured an 18-hour labor and watched New Year's Eve celebrations on a TV in the birthing suite before her new son finally arrived. "They kept saying, 'Push!

ST. PETERSBURG -- Robinson Tejeda won his second consecutive start since being called up from the minor leagues and Carlos Lee hit a solo homer, helping the Texas Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 4-3 and a avoid four-game sweep. . . . Tejeda (3-3) gave up two runs and five hits in 72/3 innings. He was recalled from Class AAA Oklahoma on Saturday to make a start that day and earned a spot in the rotation after giving up one run over 62/3 iinnings in a 3-1 win over Detroit.

One of two girls who were born joined at the head and separated in a rare operation died on Friday. Doctors had said all along that 3 1/2 -month-old Nichelle Tejeda would die because of a herpes infection contracted in the womb. It had destroyed vital organs. Doctors hope to save her twin, Michelle, who was in stable condition. The twins were born to Alicia Tejeda on May 15. Surgeons separated them in a 13-hour operation. The girls had separate brains but shared the dura mater, the membrane covering the brain and spinal cord.

Enrique Camarena was tortured for information about the anti-drug war in Mexico, then bludgeoned to death with a tire iron by Julian Alvarez, known as ''the Monkey.'' These details about the last hours of the kidnapped U.S. drug agent came from Francisco Tejeda, an accomplice in the killing of Camarena, who was arrested in Tijuana. Francisco Fonseca, a spokesman for the attorney general's office: '' . . . We are now beginning to piece together the parts of this horrible puzzle.'' Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca, major drug traffickers, also have been arrested in the slaying.

An Orlando woman who said she burned her young son accidentally during a religious rite must spend 19 years in prison for second-degree murder, a judge ruled Monday.Lupe Tejeda, 20, pleaded guilty Monday before Orange Circuit Judge Richard Conrad.She thought she deserved some punishment for failing to rescue her son from his burning crib in April 1993, said Assistant Public Defender Trish Cashman. The burns eventually led to the boy's death a year later, at 28 months old.''She panicked,'' Cashman said.

Flames consumed Jose Manuel Garcia's hands, feet and nose when his crib caught fire in April 1993. He spent an agonizing year before succumbing to disfiguring burns at 28 months old.Orlando police now say Jose's mother killed him, intentionally setting the fire and leaving the infant to burn.The woman, Lupe Tejeda, told detectives Monday that the fire was an accident, the result of a religious rite in which she lit a cigarette lighter under the crib to scare off demons.But police said Tuesday that Tejeda, 19, believed her son - born three months prematurely - would be better off dying than living with the ills resulting from an early birth.

LAREDO, Texas -- Parched and exhausted, the two young Mexicans stumbled along in the darkness of a desolate highway, hoping to be caught. They were, in the estimation of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Ariel Perez, "road kill." Sure enough, when Perez spotted them and flipped on his flashing lights, the pair slumped to the still-warm asphalt and sat, docilely awaiting their captor. They gave no thought to running. Ulises Mendez Tejeda, 21, and Cesar Enrique Zaera Martinez, 19, were headed 160 miles up the road to San Antonio, but they could just as easily have been trying for Orlando.

Juan Tejeda drove in four runs with a double and a home run, Don Kelley drove in three and Andy Kropf had four hits as the host Lakeland Tigers outslugged the Brevard County Manatees 13-6 Monday in a Florida State League game. The Tigers (18-29) took a 5-0 lead in the first inning. Manatees starter Jason Norderum (0-5) failed to retire a batter, allowing three hits, three walks and all five runs. Chad Petty (3-3) got the victory, going five innings. He gave up seven hits and four runs while walking none and striking out two. Brian Ellerson had three hits, including a homer, and Josh Labandeira and Greg Thissen each had two hits for the Manatees (27-20)

The U.S. House of Representatives on May 6 passed a bill aimed at training those who are proficient in English and Spanish to be teachers.It makes changes to the Higher Education Act of 1965, the federal law that provides financial aid to students and grants to institutions of higher education.The new program in the House-approved bill is the Frank Tejeda Scholarship Program. It is named after the congressman who died last year while serving the 28th District of Texas.``The establishment of the Frank Tejeda Scholarship Program as part of the Higher Education Act is a strong signal of the national recognition of the importance of speaking both English and Spanish, as well as the interest in supporting the academic achievements of Hispanic students throughout the nation,'' said Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in Washington, D.C., Carlos Romero Barcelo.

Tejeda, a high school dropout who earned distinction on the battlefields of Vietnam and on Ivy League campuses, died Thursday. He was 51. The Texas Democrat, first elected in 1993, died of pneumonia. Treatments of a malignant brain tumor had made him vulnerable to infection, his office said. Tejeda enlisted in the Marines in 1963 after dropping out of high school at 17. He earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart in his four-year tour of duty. He went on to earn his high school equivalency certificate, then university degrees, including a master's in public administration from Harvard and a law degree from Yale.

One of two girls who were born joined at the head and separated in a rare operation died on Friday. Doctors had said all along that 3 1/2 -month-old Nichelle Tejeda would die because of a herpes infection contracted in the womb. It had destroyed vital organs. Doctors hope to save her twin, Michelle, who was in stable condition. The twins were born to Alicia Tejeda on May 15. Surgeons separated them in a 13-hour operation. The girls had separate brains but shared the dura mater, the membrane covering the brain and spinal cord.

An Orlando woman who said she burned her young son accidentally during a religious rite must spend 19 years in prison for second-degree murder, a judge ruled Monday.Lupe Tejeda, 20, pleaded guilty Monday before Orange Circuit Judge Richard Conrad.She thought she deserved some punishment for failing to rescue her son from his burning crib in April 1993, said Assistant Public Defender Trish Cashman. The burns eventually led to the boy's death a year later, at 28 months old.''She panicked,'' Cashman said.

The littlest refugee on Sunday returned a favor to the Cuban mother who gave her the gift of life. The 6-day-old baby helped win her mom's freedom.Susanna Libertad Tejeda was born Tuesday in a Key West hospital. Her 18-year-old mother, Judy, had been picked up by the Coast Guard with family members a week ago, after four days at sea in an open raft.Tejeda started to go into labor after being taken aboard the Coast Guard cutter and was transferred by helicopter to Key West, where Susanna was born two days later.

Maria Diaz was planning to end her marriage. But she wanted to prove to her jealous husband, William Gutierrez, that she was not having an affair.On Sunday morning, she picked up Eduardo Ibarra, 34, the man her husband suspected of being her lover, and brought him to her family's apartment in Little Havana.There, the three were supposed to talk. Diaz, 22, wanted her husband to understand that she was taking the children and leaving because she was tired of his physical abuse, not because of Ibarra.

The littlest refugee on Sunday returned a favor to the Cuban mother who gave her the gift of life. The 6-day-old baby helped win her mom's freedom.Susanna Libertad Tejeda was born Tuesday in a Key West hospital. Her 18-year-old mother, Judy, had been picked up by the Coast Guard with family members a week ago, after four days at sea in an open raft.Tejeda started to go into labor after being taken aboard the Coast Guard cutter and was transferred by helicopter to Key West, where Susanna was born two days later.

Flames consumed Jose Manuel Garcia's hands, feet and nose when his crib caught fire in April 1993. He spent an agonizing year before succumbing to disfiguring burns at 28 months old.Orlando police now say Jose's mother killed him, intentionally setting the fire and leaving the infant to burn.The woman, Lupe Tejeda, told detectives Monday that the fire was an accident, the result of a religious rite in which she lit a cigarette lighter under the crib to scare off demons.But police said Tuesday that Tejeda, 19, believed her son - born three months prematurely - would be better off dying than living with the ills resulting from an early birth.